Outsourcing

While there are many types of outsourcing, in general it refers to contracting a business process or function previously performed in-house to an outside entity. Research coverage includes application outsourcing, data center outsourcing, and hosting and managed services.

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    Report:Best Practices In Mobile Banking

    Processes: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

    The critical question for many digital banking teams after they build mobile banking is how to encourage customer adoption and use. Forrester spoke to eBusiness executives at banks about the current...

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    Report:Building Next-Generation Mobile Banking

    Tools And Technologies: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

    Even the best mobile strategy can be a victim of poor execution. Managing technology is hard enough, but as new phone features and capabilities crop up seemingly every day, navigating the ever...

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    Report:Website Functionality Benchmark 2012: US Online Grocers

    Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores

    Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

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    Charts & Figures:Digital Commerce Solutions Compared

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    Blog:Extending Online Customer Service To The Mobile Channel

    There is a lot of hype around mobile. There is good reason for a lot of this hype: Mobile Internet usage is increasing. At year-end 2007, only 11% of US adult cell phone owners accessed the mobile...

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      Report:The ROI Of Mobile Investing And Mobile Trading

      Making The Business Case For Mobile Efforts At Wealth Management Firms

      Mobile has become a high priority for eBusiness teams at wealth management and investment firms. In the US, the proportion of online adults who use the mobile channel to manage their investments rose...

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      Report:2013 Global Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

      Benchmarks: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

      We used our Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark methodology to evaluate the retail mobile banking offerings of 15 retail banks in in North America, Western Europe, and Australia across more than...

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      Report:Mobile Technologies That Drive Sales

      Tools And Technology: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

      New phone features and capabilities are cropping up seemingly by the day. At the same time, this fast-paced change is dramatically affecting how eBusiness professionals interact with their teams and...

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      Blog:The Unemployment Rate Fell On Friday . . . But Don’t Brace For A Surge In Holiday Spending

      The US unemployment rate fell on Friday to its lowest level since March 2009 (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm). And on paper...that’s a very good thing.  But before we get...

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        Report:Trends 2012: European Insurance eBusiness And Channel Strategy

        Start Working On Your Digital Agenda Now!

        Despite the fact that we are in the midst of a European crisis that could influence the insurance business dramatically, eBusiness and channel strategy executives in this region should be sensitive...

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        Report:Customer Advocacy 2011: How Customers Rate European Banks

        In the midst of the recession and ongoing sovereign debt crisis, only 29% of Europeans believe their bank acts in their best interest. However, some banks rank much higher than others in our customer...

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        Report:The Art And Science Of Retail eCommerce

        Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

        As retail eCommerce sales continue to explode, eBusiness executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they are not missing opportunities in this critical channel. This playbook provides...

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        Blog:So You Want To Be A Chief Digital Officer?

        During my sullen teenage years my father invented a nonsensical, rhetorical question to proffer when conversation ran dry. During particularly quiet moments he’d ask, “So you want to be a...

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          Report:Optimize Your Mobile Banking Strategy

          Continuous Improvement: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

          Congratulations! Your mobile banking web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live, and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Digital banking teams need to test and optimize...

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          Report:The Mobile eBusiness Ecosystem

          Stakeholder Map: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

          This report outlines the stakeholder map of the mobile eBusiness playbook, which is designed to drive value through mobile services. This report should be used by eBusiness professionals to plan and...

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          Tool:Customer Advocacy Has Developed Differently Across Europe

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          Tool:Mobile Commerce Adoption In Europe Is Still Low

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          Report:eBusiness Professionals In Financial Services: Social Media Is About More Than Just Marketing

          eBusiness Has A Key Role In The Understanding And Usage Of Social Media

          Forrester recently published an analysis of the social habits of financial service customers along with a scan of current regulations and existing social marketing efforts. Overall, social media...

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          Report:European Social Retail Is A Work In Progress

          Social media is transforming the way European online buyers interact with each other and consume content. Online buyers are using social media to connect with their peers and, to a much lesser...

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          Report:US Alternative Payments Forecast, 2011 To 2016

          As eCommerce has exploded, eBusiness executives have often looked to various payment forms at checkout as a means of growing their businesses. Alternative payments, or non-card payments, purport to...

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          Report:Customer Advocacy 2010: How Canadian Customers Rate Their Banks

          Forrester's research shows that a key driver of customer retention and deeper customer relationships is a trait we call "customer advocacy," the perception by customers that a firm does what's best...

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          Survey:European Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012

          Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 20,778 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based on an...

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            Tool:Key Metrics Reported By Web Retailers

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            Blog:The Mobile Imperative During The Holidays

            It’s no longer a question of whether or not consumers will adopt mobile as an interaction and transaction channel this holiday shopping season. Over the last year, mobile has proven itself to...

             
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